A hundred years ago, in November of 1926, a group of the younger Harlem Renaissance luminaries put together a transgressive little magazine they called

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A rare glimpse behind the scenes reveals a frenetic process that has been refined across decades.

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a small, outsider literary collection—a...

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Whose Heritage? The Curious Case of Countee Cullen’s Poetics in the Harlem Survey Graphic - Volume 2

For a relatively short (three-hundred pages) book on an enormous subject, it may seem impossible to be comprehensive. But Gibbs has the advantage of being one of music’s great inside-men, and he disce...

The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.

Amazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & future releases in Black & African American Literary Criticism

Upon hearing the names of Arthur Dove or Marsden Hartley, the saturated colors and organically askew lines of those painters' landscapes may appear before your mind's eye. But unless you have a specia...

Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of the era, calls “the cultural wing of the Black Power movement...

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

<p>A hot-button political question today is that of the so-called classical education, and more specifically whether it is a dog-whistle for white supremacy. The classically educated Black sociologist

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

[REBROADCAST FROM June 17, 2025] You know Toni Morrison the writer, but what about Toni the editor? As she rose in literary fame, Morrison also worked in publishing as a senior editor...

The Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem presents the history of the Northern civil rights movement. It is a cultural institution that educates, inspires, and activates visitors through powerful storyt...

The exhibit about people enslaved by George Washington was removed in January. Judge compared Trump administration to Ministry of Truth in dystopian Orwell novel "1984."

The following essay is adapted from a speech Greg Tate delivered at SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin, for their 2016 conference on Afro futurism. I. We are gathered here tonight to reflect upon all the rh...

Anthology published at Lincoln University, featuring Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, Waring Cuney, and William Allyn Hill

Milton was an anticlerical, anti-hierarchical, individualistic godly Protestant. He belonged to no parish, sect or...

The 6–3 decision was a rare victory, but it was crafted out of conflicts that leave almost nothing certain—including future tariff rulings.

The Black Scholar is seeking applicants for two Book Review Editors. The positions will start in mid-to-late 2025 and are for a two-year appointment, renewable by mutual consent. As members of the TBS...